Box Score
Jacksonville, Fla. – The Long Island University women’s lacrosse team fell to Jacksonville, 21-10, in a non-conference contest at the Ashley Sports Complex on Wednesday evening. Senior
Christie Wienckowski and sophomore
Claire Ranney led the Blackbirds with three goals each.
Jacksonville (3-6) opened the contest with a 5-0 run after Amanda Hurley scored a pair of goals just under three minutes into the contest. Junior
Annie Kalata was able to put LIU on the board with an unassisted effort at the 17:07 mark, but Brie Kitchelt pushed the JU lead to 6-1 with a goal at 13:21.
Long Island (1-5) followed with a free position goal from Ranney at 9:50 before Jacksonville came back with consecutive goals. Jocelyn Jamison scored the first unassisted and then set up a score by Nicole Albino that made it 8-2.
Kalata notched her second of the night to make it 8-3 as the teams alternated the next four goals. Wienckowski scored off a pass from Kalata to make it 9-4 before Cassie Campasano scored to give the Dolphins a six goal margin. The Blackbirds rallied just before halftime when Ranney scored off a Wienckowski pass with 37 seconds to play and then Wienckowski scored her own goal off a feed from freshman Caitlin Farrell just before the intermission.
JU opened the scoring in the second half, but Farrell came back with an LIU goal set up by Wienckowski at the 24:27 mark to make it 11-7. That was as close as the Blackbirds would get the rest of the way as Jacksonville ran off four unanswered goals. Junior
Sara LaNoir ended the run with a free position shot with 15:05 to play to make it 15-8, but the Dolphins answered with five straight scores. Back-to-back goals from Ranney and Wienckowski cut the deficit to 20-10 with 5:26 to play, but Sarah Michel tacked on a goal for the final margin.
Wienckowski added a team-high three draw controls, while Kalata, LaNoir, Ranney and senior
Kristina Scheerer each picked up three ground balls. Sophomore
Jacqueline Simonian made 10 saves in net for the Blackbirds.
Kitchelt and Megan Lusby led the Dophins with four goals each. Kitchelt added six ground balls to lead all players. Hannah Collins made six saves to pick up the win.
JU held a 37-25 advantage in shots and won 22 draw controls, compared to just 11 for LIU.
The Blackbirds open Northeast Conference play on Friday, March 19, at Robert Morris in Moon Township, Pa.